Dynamics and Control II

The follow-up to the rigid-body dynamics sequence, this is where you stop just describing how systems move and start asking how to *make* them behave — taking a plant (mechanical, electrical, fluid, or some mix), modeling it in the Laplace domain, and then designing feedback around it so the response actually meets a spec. You'll spend the semester building transfer functions and block diagrams, reading off behavior from poles, zeros, root loci, and Bode plots, and ultimately tuning PID and lead/lag compensators in problem sets, quizzes, and a lab component. It's the bridge between the math-heavy dynamics courses and everything downstream — mechatronics, robotics, vibrations — where you stop assuming systems are well-behaved and start engineering them to be.